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Front row: Joseph Colwell, Bruce Green, Bennett Gershman, Roberta Flowers, Patrick Longan; back row: Joe Shelley, Rory Little, Kevin McMunigal, Peter Joy, Jennifer Laurin
prosecutors fail to fulfill their duty.” The daylong symposium included four sessions. “Federal Criminal Discovery Reform: A Legislative Approach” featured Bruce A. Green, Louis Stein Professor of Law at Fordham. Bennett Gershman, professor of law at Pace, headed “Lessons from the Schuelke Report.” Kevin C. McMunigal, Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve, was lead speaker for “Punishment vs. Education: Do We Have to Choose?” The final session, “‘But What Exactly Do You Mean?’ The ABA Criminal Justice Standards and the Challenges of Implementation,” featured Rory K. Little, professor of law at University of California-Hastings. According to Longan, the final session underlined the wisdom of a key aspect of Mercer’s LL.M. program. “The fourth panel involved voices from the defense and prosecution perspectives agreeing that training of prosecutors and defense lawyers might
be enhanced by programs that train them together or in ways that improve the appreciation of the role and viewpoint of the opposing side,” Longan says. “On this score, Mercer’s LL.M. program may be ahead of the curve, since it is designed to train prosecutors and defense lawyers side by side.” The panels included as commentators Professor Fleissner; Peter Joy, Henry Hitchcock Professor of Law and Vice Dean at Washington University; Hon. Marc T. Treadwell, U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia; Atlanta attorney Seth Kirschenbaum; Jennifer E. Laurin, assistant professor of law at the University of Texas; Roberta K. Flowers, professor of law at Stetson; Cynthia Roseberry, director of the Federal Defenders Office for the Middle District of Georgia and professor of federal criminal practice in Mercer’s LL.M. program; and Charysse L. Alexander, executive assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia.
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